St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-27
Wants 10 He an Editor.

10 the EultOr OF the GlOOe.
am young man, only II years of age,
With some experience in the ways of the
world, and have known both its pleasures and
is pains OF course, ] speak only from nv
young experience, and cannot, perhaps, tell
us much as older persons. Having seen, how
ever, your liberal offer to the people to speak
of their aims in life, determined ID take adj
vantage OF Ii and to confidentially let you
know nv ambition.
Having had some little fortune left me by
my father, who died in lS76-shortly after he
returned from the centennial at Philadelphia
i have never been compelled TO labor hard.
The education given me in the ublic schools
placed me in n position where | have been
able To continue i'll the studies OF which then
earned the elements and to maze further re-
searches in the knowledge of books. Having
low both n snug little fortune and u fair edu-
cation, TO which may add reasonably good
health. the world is before me to choose any
path that M taste inclnes me to,l sometimes
think that this liberty of wide choice is i'll it.
self Il drawback. | have known boys at
- h0ol, who have had much more TO contend
against in the matter of money, who have
forged ahead and are now in better circum-
stances, financially. than myself. But re-
cts are vain, and already feel ashamed OF
laying given them place in this communi-
ration.
/ hardly dare write the thought now upper
most in my mind, but could not truthfuly
answer the question What is my aim i'll
hfc?' without mentioning it, I have often
Oeen lonely when seeming most entertained
~ the conversation and pretty ways Of the
.oang ladi' into whose circle my fortune
laS thrown me. While enjoying 10 some eX-
tent, and fully approaching their efforts TO
make glad my SOLITARY life, never could re-
gard them as other than friends-never as
lovers. Perhaps should explain that my
mother died when was years old, and that
/ have neither brothers or sisters. This is
WIZ ] say that my life has been soil
gary. Ny immediate aim, though it
is indefinite as to its object. is
10 gain a wife good and worthy. | sometimes
think would not care so much about her
face as about her temperament and manners
But am not settled on what she should be in
detail. Already fear that the good people
who arc reading this, my first attempt TO get
into print, are laughing at the subject which
nave made so prominent feature in my
ambition. But | have set it down on paper
and shall not recall il. Now if it is proper, i
shall offer some little explanation why | am
not cuptivated TO ularriageabe degree by
the beauty and the eaiivening talk of my
feminine friends. | shall do so frankly and
openly. Many years sgo Il was then only 16)
entertained deep affection for a little girl.
year younger, VINO attended the same dis
trict school in Illinois with me. She died of
scarlet fever in the midst of our chdlike
courtship, telling her mother a little while
lived to wOmanhood 1t was her souls
longing that we might go through the
world rs man and wife. Her death was
terrible blow to my young hopes. Even at
| the risk Of appearing sentimental, l must say
often doubt whether 1 shall be ube TO be
what l might have been if she had lived. But
the world is full of these instances of early
disappointment, and am told that time will
soften them down. This, however,s truism
hard for me to apply with satisfaction to my
own case.
must now tell you my ultimate aim, which
fear, even il successful, shall have to
reach alone. 1 often wished to become
contributor to the newspapers, with the ling
ering hope that some day in my old age l
shall attain the dignity of chief editor on an
influential journal. My secret is OUT Never
in the course of my life have ! dared to
breathe it to my most intimate friends, lest
they might scorn my high ambition. To pre-
side over the editorial matter of such PAPER
as the GLOBE, to dictate what shall be put in
its columns and what shall be cut out-this
is indeed, ar enviable post IN the battle of
life. Ordinary people have only their own
mouths by which 10 express their likes and
dislikes but the editor has his pen, and
through 1t he speaks TO thousands. 1t mus
be hard to be a country editor, who has to
write the articles and then to print them him
self. But where you have merely to write
the copy and pass it on to the printers, with
no thought nor Gaze about putting it into
type, this must be exharating. Fearing that
have already tranSgressed too much on
you. general invitation to express myself,
remain, yours devoteGly, CHARLES
st. Paul. March 2i.